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The Cats of Tanglewood Forest (2013)

par Charles de Lint

Autres auteurs: Charles Vess (Illustrateur)

Séries: Circle of Cats (2)

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Twelve-year-old Lillian, an orphan who loves roaming the woods looking for fairies when her chores are done, is bitten by a deadly snake and saved through the magical forest creatures in this expansion on the author's and illustrator's previous work, A circle of cats.
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This is a sweet adventure story of a girl finding her way through magical animal territory, a story of loss, and finding one's way. It took my son and I a long time to get through this as a read aloud, and i probably would not have finished it myself. It is a good fit for kids who love magical animal stories. ( )
  mslibrarynerd | Jan 13, 2024 |
Lovely illustrations. I won't summarize, several other reviews already do. I will say, some parts of this might be a little grim for sensitive children. ( )
  catseyegreen | Jul 14, 2023 |
3.5 stars

Lillian is 12-years old and lives near a forest with her aunt. When she is in the forest looking for fairies, she is bitten by a snake, and in order to save her, some of the cats she has been feeding help by magically turning her into a cat. And now, Lillian can talk to the cats and the other animals in the forest. But her aunt doesn’t recognize her and she can’t explain what happened because her aunt only hears meowing. What to do!?

I enjoyed this! It is an expansion of de Lint’s “A Circle of Cats” (which I did read a long time ago, but don’t recall). There are some nice illustrations throughout. ( )
  LibraryCin | Jul 13, 2023 |
Lillian Kindred is an orphan girl living with her Aunt on a farm in the hills, surrounded by a very tangled forest. When she is not doing chores, she wanders the forest, looking for fairies and spirits and spirits and magical things. Aunt warns her spirits don't necessarily want rambunctious little red-haired girls bothering them, Lillian says she's not bothering anyone. She just wants to say, "Hello hello."

One day, Lillian is out wandering, and lays down under a tree to rest. She falls asleep, and is awakened by a snake biting her. It's poisonous, very poisonous, and Lillian realizes she is dying.

Many of the local cats gather around her, though, and realize that they can't save the little girl's life, but they can use cat magic to change her into something that isn't dying--a kitten. Lillian agrees, and when she wakes again, she's a kitten, and very healthy. This is when Lillian starts to get her first tough lesson in not thinking things through. She heads off for home, knowing Aunt will be worried about her.

Aunt is worried. And remains worried, not realizing that the kitten is Lillian, because of course, why would she? As the day gets late, Aunt gets very worried indeed, and starts organizing the neighbors, the few neighbors they have, to search for Lillian.

Lillian goes looking for her next excellent magical solution. She can't find the cats; she doesn't realize they weren't supposed to use cat magic that way, and they're keeping scarce for fear of the anger of the Father of Cats. She meets a fox, with whom she forms a tentative friendship, and visits Old Mother Possum, who is a witch. Old Mother Possum rolls time back for her, so that the snake bite never happened.

She goes home, and discovers the snake has bitten Aunt, instead, and Aunt is already dead. This is her second lesson in not thinking things through, and what major effects small changes can make.

But Lillian doesn't give up. She has a lot to learn, and that includes staying for a while with the nearest neighbors, the Welches, and learning about the harder tasks of running a farm. She's Aunt's only heir, and while Mrs. Welch wants to make her a proper, respectable girl, Lillian is determined to run her aunts farm, not sell it.

Eventually, though, not accepting Mrs. Welch's plan for her means setting off to find another solution, hopefully one that doesn't involve Aunt dying. Along the way, she meets Jack Crow, the terrifying Bear people, the Father of Cats, and other magical creatures. None of the lessons are easy ones, and before she gets home again, she's learned to speak to the animals, to think things through a bit better, to take responsibility--and taken on an obligation to the Father of Cats, which may not come due for many, many years. It's a wonderful, magical story, and at the same time, one that makes clear that even magic can't make things perfect, that happy endings are provisional and the result of hard work and careful choices.

And Charles Vess's illustrations are wonderful and magical in themselves, making the story even better.

Recommended.

I received this book as a gift, and am reviewing it voluntarily. ( )
  LisCarey | Jul 30, 2022 |
The illustrations by Charles Vess are delightful.

In terms of story, one thing to understand is The Cats of Tanglewood Forest is not, in fact, about the cats of Tanglewood Forest. It's more like Girl Explores an Alternate Timeline.

Overall the story is good, although towards the end it does some rather clunky obvious setup for the sequel, and the ending itself feels rather abrupt. ( )
  rakerman | Dec 15, 2021 |
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Fro my two best gals: MaryAnn and Clare -Charles de Lint
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